The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.

Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything.

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises.

In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought.

As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

We must believe in free will - we have no choice.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

There will never be any peace in the world as long as we eat animals.

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.

Beth: "I don't think you realize what you're dealing with here. You can't just mess around with the forces of the universe!" Xavier: "What ever happened to free will? Or was that just a myth?

America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.

Don't give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own.

I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else.

The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!

Trust, therefore, for the overcoming of a difficulty, not to long-continued study after you have once become bewildered, but to repeated trials at intervals.

Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.

Prayer flies where the eagle never flew.

Our dog chases people on a bike. We've had to take it off him.